Another Make or Break Moment for the Middle Class

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

“Either we build an economy in which most workers can earn enough to adequately support their families or we build a government with the wherewithal to subsidize the existence of a lower class that can’t survive on its own. We are doing neither.”

“The middle class faces another make-or-break moment in the intensifying fiscal showdown. If congressional Republicans deny tax relief for 98 percent of Americans to preserve a tax windfall for the top 2 percent, then the failed dogma of trickle-down economics has won again — despite being pummeled in the election last month.”

Here is some “Scrooge worthy behavior. ” “The Republicans are refusing to secure tax cuts for the struggling middle class, apparently in order to have a bargaining chip to protect tax cuts for the wealthiest. Their recent “counter-offer” actually ‘raises taxes on the middle class…to preserve tax breaks for the rich.’”

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The great American middle class wasn’t something that just happened – it was built brick by brick. It was built by soldiers returning from war and a government that repaid them by giving them a shot at college.

What the wealthy and well-connected figured out is that they have strength in numbers: the numbers of dollars they contribute to politicians. It’s time working and middle class Americans use our strength in numbers to reclaim the American Dream. We need a counterweight to the power of big money – and that’s the power of big numbers, the power of ordinary people who work for a living demanding to have our voices heard – from the workplace to Washington.